"Emodir". Riforma e movimenti religiosi. Rivista della Società di Studi Valdesi, I, 2017, pp. 359-361. A presentation of Emodir published in Italian in the journal of the Società di Studi Valdesi (Society of Waldensian Studies)....
more"Emodir". Riforma e movimenti religiosi. Rivista della Società di Studi Valdesi, I, 2017, pp. 359-361.
A presentation of Emodir published in Italian in the journal of the Società di Studi Valdesi (Society of Waldensian Studies).
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) is an international research group dedicated to the study of religious differences, conflicts and plurality during the early modern period, constituted at Pisa (Italy) by a group of European scholars based in France, Germany, Italy, and the UK in 2007.
After four years, during which the members of the group met regularly and organized a series of workshops in Italy, EMoDiR has formally instituted a scientific organization, based in Verona in 2011. Since then, several scholars of European, North American, Australian Universities and research centers have joined the group.
The aim of the research group is to examine the early modern discursive constructions of religious dissent and the socio-cultural practices of radical movements, transcending traditional historiographical boundaries (notably national and/or confessional). Since the ‘construction of the dissenter’ is the outcome of a complex process, it is necessary to analyze this process both in terms of internal and synchronic dynamics, and in external and diachronic ones. Therefore EMoDiR is committed to gathering together a variety of research projects on early modern religious culture which, given its multifaceted nature, is conceived as a dynamic system. One moreover, which was essential in forging complex identities and encouraging dialogue between them. Analysis, both at local and transnational level (from a predominantly European perspective) is intended to contribute to a cultural and social history of dissents.
From its very beginning EMoDiR has promoted research on the social networks of individuals and specific groups, as well as on the dynamics involved in constructing socio-cultural identities. By considering dissent as a socio-cultural construction rather than doctrinal position, the first objective of the group consists in deconstructing and historically contextualizing such commonly used categories as dissent, radicalism, dissidence, libertinism, heresy, heterodoxy as prerequisite to a critical and problematic use of them.
Between 2008 and 2017 EMoDiR has established formal institutional agreements with the EHESS of Paris, the LERMA – Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone dell’Università Aix-Marseille, the research center Formes et idées de la Renaissance aux Lumières (FIRL–EA174) of the University Paris III – Sorbonne in France; the Department of Humanities (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici) of the University of Venice, the Time, Space, Image, Society Department of the University of Verona (Dipartimento Tempo, Spazio, Immagine e Società) in Italy; the Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften of the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, the Historisches Institut of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany; the Department of History of the University of Maryland College Park (Usa), the Morris E. Curiel Institute for European Studies of the University of Tel Aviv (Israel), the Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation of the University of Geneva (Switzerland).
EMoDiR has already promoted national and international research projects and organized a series of seminars, conferences and workshops and is an affiliate organization to the Renaissance Society of America (presenting since 2011 multiple panels at the Annual conference of this organization).
